Not Fade Away
Peter Barton was a founder of Liberty Media and one of the architects of modern cable television. In his early fifties he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he spent his last years working with journalist Laurence Shames to put his thinking on the page. The book moves between memoir and reflection, tracing how a hitchhiking college kid became a cable executive, how ambition shifted into meaning, and what fatherhood, faith, and mortality look like from inside a shortening timeline. He is generous, funny, and unsparing about his own vanity. The result is less a story about dying than a quiet argument about how to be alive while you still have the chance.
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Cable pioneer Peter Barton, dying of cancer in his fifties, writes with journalist Laurence Shames about a life well lived and what it means to face the end with clarity.
Not Fade Away was written by Peter Barton, published in 2003 by Rodale Books.
Not Fade Away is 224 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Not Fade Away takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
Not Fade Away is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
